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How to Save the High Street

Business journalist Adam Shaw investigates the government's plans to spend millions of pounds reviving run-down town centres.

For more than a century, our high streets have been key to our communities, but now, with one in ten shops sitting empty, they are in crisis. In this programme, business journalist Adam Shaw investigates the government鈥檚 plans to spend millions of pounds reviving run-down town centres. He finds high streets across the country looking at other ways to remain part of their community and learns that to adapt and change on the scale that鈥檚 needed, they will have to have more than just money.

29 minutes

Last on

Sat 18 Jan 2020 02:35

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Reporter Adam Shaw
Producer Alison Priestley
Executive Producer Lucie Kon
Editor Rachel Jupp

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